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Best of 2025: eBPF: The Silent Power Behind Cloud Native’s Next Phase

Let’s start at the beginning. eBPF (extended Berkeley Packet Filter) is a technology built into the Linux kernel that allows sandboxed programs to run safely inside the kernel itself. Originally, it was ...

Alan Shimel | December 23, 2025 | Cilium eBPF, cloud native 2.0, eBPF, eBPF in DevOps, eBPF networking, eBPF performance monitoring, eBPF security, extended Berkeley Packet Filter, Falco eBPF, Istio Ambient Mesh eBPF, kernel-level programmability, Kubernetes eBPF, Linux kernel observability, Pixie observability, service mesh without sidecars, Tetragon runtime security, zero-instrumentation observability

Microsoft, open source, Fermyon Microsoft Serverless Computing to Container

Best of 2025: Microsoft Simplifies Kubernetes Management with AI Integration

Microsoft has added a series of enhancements to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) focused on AI workload support, operational simplification, and addressing the notorious complexity challenges that have long been Kubernetes’ Achilles’ heel ...

Tom Smith | December 22, 2025 | KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025, kubernetes, microsoft

autoscaling, Tailscale, Kubernetes, argo cd, Kubernetes v1.33, AI, Nelm, Kubernetes, architecture, , architecture, Rackspace, GPUs, Kubernetes, Solo.io Kubernetes cloud foundry keptn cloud-native automation

Best of 2025: Why Kubernetes 1.33 Is a Turning Point for MLOps — and Platform Engineering

There comes a point in every engineer’s experience when a platform matures to the point of being truly ready for production use. With Kubernetes v1.33, that point has arrived for artificial intelligence ...

Itiel Shwartz | December 22, 2025 | kubernetes, MLOps, platform engineering

TLS, certificates, Docker, vulnerabilities, supply chain, KubeCon, SigStore, Kubernetes TrapX container security

Docker, Inc. Adds More Than a Thousand Free Hardened Container Images

Docker is releasing more than 1,000 hardened container images under an open source license, aiming to cut vulnerabilities and strengthen software supply chains ...

Mike Vizard | December 17, 2025 | Alpine containers, cloud native security, container security, CVE management, Debian containers, DevSecOps, Docker AI Assistant, Docker hardened images, docker hub, hardened container images, open source containers, SBOM, SLSA provenance, software supply chain security

Docker, secrets, gitguardian Thycotic Kubernetes secrets

Flare Finds 10,000 Docker Hub Images Exposing Secrets

Researchers found thousands of Docker images exposing API keys and tokens, revealing how secrets sprawl, shadow IT, and poor hygiene fuel modern breaches ...

Jeff Burt | December 16, 2025 | API, CI/CD security, cloud computing, container images, credentials, developers and containers, docker hub, exposed secrets, Flare Systems, passwords, shadow IT

SUSE Allies with evroc for European Cloud Service Based on Kubernetes

SUSE today revealed it has allied with evroc to provide a sovereign cloud based on its Kubernetes platform that in the first quarter of 2026 will be hosted in Europe by a ...

Mike Vizard | December 10, 2025 | evroc, kubernetes, sovereign cloud, SUSE

Solo Gets Stickier on Gloo Mesh for Amazon ECS

Solo.io, Gloo Mesh, Gloo Gateway, Amazon ECS, ECS service mesh, Istio Ambient Mode, sidecar-less service mesh, API management, microservices networking, cloud-native security, cloud observability, zero-trust policies, traffic management, App Mesh deprecation, ECS ...

Adrian Bridgwater | December 10, 2025 | cloud native security, cloud-native applications, containers, kubernetes, microservices, service mesh, Solo.io

tools, open source, Red Hat, tools, SUSE, tools, tool portfolio, tools Kubernetes

AWS Lambda Managed Instances Offer Specialized Compute Configurations

AWS Lambda Managed Instances bring Lambda’s operational simplicity to EC2, enabling specialized compute options, cost efficiency, and predictable scaling ...

AI, cloud, systems, contact, center, Tellus, cloud, environments, private clouds, TFD, Nuon, SaaS

You Can Stop Saying “Cloud,” But You Can’t Take the Cloud Out

Shimmy breaks down why AI hype and agentic rebranding can’t replace the cloud, arguing that despite shifting language, modern AI systems still rely on cloud as their essential backbone ...